Monday, September 15, 2014

Smoke and Fire

The land is hot, parched, and thirsty. 
Windows shutter.
A sweet scent deceives, portending death, where blows it thick. 

The sheriff's office calls.
Don't call us. Call for flames. The fire is north.

Gravel crunches. A generator runs. A cricket chirps. Melancholy?
 A barely blue hovers above the tree line. Lazy firs sway, ever sanguine.

It's time for rain. Doesn't Nature know? 
She does, but we desecrate her.
 Her nature. Altered. 


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